Chapter 1713
As we passed the counter, an elderly gentleman was wearing professional equipment to overhaul his old watch, and looked so focused that he didn’t seem surprised by our arrival.
Gu Han, on the other hand, ignores the old man and walks straight to the inner room, his steps so big that I have to jog to keep up.
After a few turns around the room filled with clocks of various colours, the view finally became spacious, with wine on either side of the room and a set of European style velvet sofas in the middle, very stylish.
Gu Han walked over to the wine rack and casually drew out one of the bottles. After a moment of air stagnation, the wall directly in front of me suddenly moved slowly to the side, revealing a little bit of the secret door behind it.
I watched in amazement as the wine was not a decoration, but the key to the inner chamber.
Two rows of wine racks, hundreds of bottles of wine, it would take hundreds of attempts, not to mention, who would focus on the objects that abounded at first glance?
“Follow me.” While I was dazed, Gu Han had already walked in. I froze for a moment and hurriedly lifted my feet to walk over, and as I passed the living room, my eyes stole a glance in the direction of the bottle of wine.
Although Gu Han moved quickly and I couldn’t remember exactly which bottle it was, I was able to remember the general direction and come back when I had the chance, so I wouldn’t be too passive.
I thought I would see the child immediately, but I didn’t expect to see an underground factory when I entered.
We were suddenly on the first floor, high above the ground, and at our feet were worker after worker in silver suits, operating on an assembly line, which was lined with piles of bottles and jars that were so far away that I wasn’t able to guess what the products were just by guessing.
“This way.”
Gu Han’s voice pulled me back to reality, and with a heavy sense of curiosity, I followed his steps anyway.
Finally, after turning a few corners, I could hear the cries of babies from afar.
Just as I was getting excited, I realised that something was wrong.
It was true that there was a baby crying here, but there was more than one.
The closer I got and the more clearly I heard it, the more certain I became that there was more than one child here.
Sure enough, Gu Han pushed open the door and proved me right.
The room was regularly lined with more than a dozen incubators, all containing newborn children, most of whom were crying at the top of their lungs because their mothers were not around to look after them, making for a chaotic and heart-wrenching scene.
My first reaction was to rush in and find my own child, but after searching around, I didn’t see mine or Fu’s baby at all.
“What do you mean?” I stood in the middle of the incubator and questioned Gu Han.
“You want to see the baby, I’ve brought you here now, what’s not to like?” Gu Han’s words were indifferent, as if this was something he took for granted.
I felt a sense of humiliation at being played and gritted my teeth in anger, “You know that’s not what I meant, what I want to see is my own son, tell me, which one is it here?”
“Hmph,” Gu Han laughed mockingly and lifted his feet to pace inside, teasing the child seemingly kindly as he said in a cloudy voice, “Every child here has experienced the pain of separation of flesh and bone, little Shu, I’ll give you a chance now, choose one from here and take it away, I’ll let you go, how about that? ”
“Let me go?” I didn’t think he would be so kind at this point, “What are the conditions?”
Chapter 1714
Instead of answering directly, Gu Han digressed, “Think about it, in this room, all the children born on the same day as your son, as long as you fancy them, you can take them all away.”
“What do you mean?” It seemed he meant something else.
“You just want children, they are still so young that they won’t have past memories, or you don’t have confidence in yourself and are afraid that you won’t be able to treat other people’s children as if they were your own?” Gu Han said.
I heard and understood that Gu Han seemed to want me to find a substitute in this to replace the child I had with Fu Shen Yan?
Gu Han didn’t know about Fu Shen Yan’s private search for me, and by definition, he shouldn’t be pleasing me, and on top of that, the idea was comical.
Shaking my head, I looked at Gu Han mockingly and sneered, “To this day, there is still nothing in your eyes that you can’t find a substitute for.”
Although blood is invisible and inscrutable, it is precisely for this reason that it cannot be erased, a truth that Gu Han will probably never understand.
“I’m curious, what exactly do you get out of doing this?”
You’ve tricked me by all means, but now you want me to run away with someone else’s child, isn’t that a contradiction?
Although Gu Han was stubborn, he wasn’t stupid, and there must be a purpose for doing this.
Gu Han narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment before speaking again, “What’s the good of following Fu Shen Yan, you and the child, he can’t protect either of them, Xiao Shu, I’m the only one who will always put you first, as long as you nod, we’ll take the child now and run away from these enmities, I promise you that I’ll make sure you and the child are safe.”
Promise?
In this moment, Gu Han’s assurances were too cheap.
But one thing was in my favour; although Gu Han was obsessed with getting me, he didn’t want to hurt me, and it seemed he wasn’t the mastermind behind all this.
“Do they have Gaijin and the baby?” I asked.
Perhaps it was because of this that Gu Han was working for them.
At the mention of this, Gu Han’s eyes suddenly turned fierce and he looked at me with some annoyance, “I am asking you now, assuming your son will never be recovered, there is now an opportunity for me to take you and one of the children here and leave, do you want to go!”
The feeling of danger came over me and I was so flustered by his look that I made an involuntary swallowing motion.
But the bottom line was the bottom line, there was no way I was going to leave my child and Fu Shen Yan’s child to fend for themselves.
I opened my mouth and clenched my fists, I calmed down and was about to open my mouth to respond to him when a figure suddenly flashed in through the door, and in the blink of an eye, had captured Gu Han, the cold light of his blade against his neck.
The man took control of Gu Han before slowly revealing half of his body, and it was actually Ah Ruo.
They weren’t in cahoots? Was this an internecine war?
Before I could react, an eerie voice came languidly through the door.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, I warned you, don’t be a smartass.”
As the words fell, Mu Shen’s figure was like a ghost, peeking out from beside Ah Ruo and standing ghostly.
He looked at me, his thin lips opening and closing, a smile in his eyes, like an evil ghost crawling out of hell, ghastly, “Shen Shu, I said I’d see you again soon, I kept my word, right?”
I sucked in a sharp breath and clenched my teeth, speechless.
Although I had guessed that this might have something to do with Mu Shen, I was still shocked to see him here.